filum
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See also: fílum
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
filum (plural fila)
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-. Cognate with Lithuanian gysla.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fīlum n (genitive fīlī); second declension
- thread, string, filament, fiber
- texture, style, nature
- wick of a lamp
- accusative singular of fīlum
- vocative singular of fīlum
Inflection[edit]
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fīlum | fīla |
Genitive | fīlī | fīlōrum |
Dative | fīlō | fīlīs |
Accusative | fīlum | fīla |
Ablative | fīlō | fīlīs |
Vocative | fīlum | fīla |
Synonyms[edit]
- (wick): mergulus
Descendants[edit]
- Corsican: filu
- Dalmatian: fil
- Eastern Romance:
- Italian: filo, fila
- Old French: fil
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: filu
- Old Occitan:
- Old Portuguese: fio
- Old Spanish: filo
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: filu, fiu
- Sicilian: filu
- Venetian: fiło, fil
- → Albanian: fill
- → English: filum
References[edit]
- filum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- filum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- filum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- filum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill
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